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My eyes were covered and closed: eddying darkness seemed to swim

round me, and reflection came in as black and confused a flow

Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seereat river; I heard a flood loosened

in remote mountains, and felt the torrent coth I lay faint, longing to be dead

One idea only still throbbed life-like within ot an unuttered prayer: these words andering up

and down inthat should be whispered,

but no energy was found to express them "Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help"

It was near: and as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it-

-as I had neither joined my hands, nor bentthe torrent poured over me The

whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, hty above me in one sullen

mass That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, "the waters

ca; I came

into deep waters; the floods overflowed me"